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Bf 109G-2, MT-222, flown by lentomestari (Warrant Officer) Ilmari Juutilainen, 1/LeLv 34,

Malmi, Finland, May 1943

Eino Ilmari “Illu” Juutilainen, the most successful

fighter plane pilot of Finland, was born at Lieksa

on February 21st, 1914. He received flying training

in 1935-36 and on February 16th, 1937 was posted

to LLv 12. He was transferred on March 3rd, 1939

as kersantti to LLv 24, equipped with Fokker D.XXI.

Here he rose to the rank of lentomestari. On February 2nd, 1943 Juutilainen was transferred to LeLv

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34. This unit was equipped with Bf 109G. After the

war he served with HLeLv 33 and on May 16th, 1947

resigned from duty, but enlisted yet on September

8th, 1948 for ten months to PLeLv 41 taking twin-engine courses. In civil life he made his living as

a small plane pilot. Juutilainen died on his birthday

in 1999. During both wars he flew 437 missions and

shot down 94 enemy aircraft.

Juutilainen´s yellow 2 in a standard camouflage of

Luftwaffe fighter got, after its arrival to Finland,

Finnish swastikas on a round white base painted

on six positions of the aircraft, yellow nose band

and rear fuselage band, and a 165 cm wide yellow

underside of the wings tips. Original German signs

were overpainted. The stencils remained German.

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